Eric Gordon to the Hoosiers!

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OUCH Illini Nation, we just stole your prized recruit!

Midnight madness: Gordon to Indiana?
Prized Illini recruit visits Hoosiers Friday

By Brian Hamilton
Tribune staff reporter
Published October 13, 2006


Prized Indianapolis high school guard Eric Gordon will attend Midnight Madness festivities Friday night at Indiana, a move that likely indicates the senior guard who committed orally to Illinois last year has come to a decision, his father said.

And it's one that likely will make coach Bruce Weber and the Illini faithful unhappy.

"This is pretty significant, because we had not planned any other visits," Eric Gordon Sr. told the Tribune on Thursday night.

The elder Gordon wouldn't say his son definitively is headed to Indiana but indicated the family wanted the younger Gordon to make up his mind before any more campus trips. His son was attempting Thursday night to contact both Weber and Hoosiers coach Kelvin Sampson.

Gordon, a strong, ultra-athletic 6-foot-4-inch guard from Indianapolis North Central High, is Weber's signature recruit.

This summer Gordon jumped to No. 2 nationally in the Rivals.com rankings for the class of 2007. He had been a top 10 player when he committed to Illinois a year ago.

How developments affect another prime recruit--Simeon's Derrick Rose, Rivals' No. 3 player--remains to be seen. Indiana is on Rose's list of five finalists, and after teaming together on the AAU circuit this summer, he and Gordon expressed interest in attending the same school. Rose, however, will be in Memphis Friday night for the Tigers' version of Midnight Madness.